wickedly

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wick·ed

(wĭk′ĭd)

adj. wick·ed·er, wick·ed·est

1. Evil or immoral: "this wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred" (Winston S. Churchill).

2. Playfully malicious or mischievous: a wicked prank; a critic's wicked wit.

3. Severe and distressing: a wicked cough; a wicked gash; wicked driving conditions.

4. Highly offensive; obnoxious: a wicked stench.

5. Slang Strikingly good, effective, or skillful: a wicked curve ball; a wicked imitation.

adv. Slang

Used as an intensive: "a ... body suit, which she describes as wicked comfortable" (Nathan Cobb).

[Middle English, alteration of wicke, ultimately from Old English wicca, sorcerer; see witch.]

wick′ed·ly adv.

wick′ed·ness n.

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Adv.

wickedly - in a wicked evil manner; "act wickedly"; "grin evilly"

evilly

Translations

بصورَةٍ شِرّيرَه أو مُؤْذِيَه

abgefeimt gottlos

méchamment vilainement

illgirnislega

malvagiamente

zlobno

kötülükle

邪恶地

wickedly

[ˈwɪkɪdlɪ] ADV

1. (= evilly) [behave, destroy] → malvadamente, cruelmente

2. (= naughtily) [grin, laugh, suggest] → con picardía
a wickedly funny play → una obra para desternillarse de risa

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

wickedly

[ˈwɪkɪdli] adv

(= in an evil way) [act, treat] → d'une manière abjecte

(= mischievously) [grin, smile] → diaboliquement; [funny] → diaboliquement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wickedly

adv

(= with evil intentions) → böse; (= immorally) → schlecht, gottlos; (= dissolutely) → lasterhaft

cold → gemein; a wickedly accurate satire → eine scharf treffende Satire

(= mischievously) smile, look, grin → frech

(inf) expensive → unverschämt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

wickedly

[ˈwɪkɪdlɪ] adv (remark, smile, behave) → perfidamente, con cattiveria; (roguishly) → maliziosamente
wickedly expensive → terribilmente costoso
a wickedly humorous play → una commedia maliziosamente spiritosa

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

wicked

(ˈwikid) adjective

evil; sinful. He is a wicked man; That was a wicked thing to do.

ˈwickedly adverb

ˈwickedness noun

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Thereat the Angel of Compassion did most shamelessly and wickedly laugh.

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The poison was alleged to have been wickedly and feloniously given by the prisoner to his wife Sara, on two occasions, in the form of arsenic, administered in tea, medicine, "or other article or articles of food or drink, to the prosecutor unknown." It was further declared that the prisoner's wife had died of the poison thus administered b y her husband, on one or other, or both, of the stated occasions; and that she was thus murdered by her husband.

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He did not return the blow, or complain to the doctor; he only looked at me wickedly, and said: "I'll be even with you for that, some of these days." I soon forgot the words and the look.

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"Upon my word, sir," cries Sophia, "I must belie my heart wickedly if I did.

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I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.

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So he merely threw himself into his glittering throne and tipped his crown over his ear and curled his feet up under him and glared wickedly at Blug.

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"They ARE adorable animals, aren't they?" she said wickedly.

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He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent.

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In a few minutes, and while all the party stood looking on, the King regained the use of his eyes, and the first thing he did was to glare wickedly upon the Scarecrow and exclaim:

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Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.

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"Why did you wickedly and viciously send the Rain of Stones to crack and break our houses?" he continued.